Oblique muscle of auricle

Oblique muscle of auricle
The muscles of the auricula
Details
Nerve	Posterior auricular nerve from the facial nerve
Identifiers
Latin	musculus obliquus auriculae
TA98	A15.3.01.044
TA2	2100
FMA	48986
Anatomical terms of muscle [edit on Wikidata]

The oblique muscle of auricle (oblique auricular muscle or Tod muscle^[1]) is an intrinsic muscle of the outer ear.

The oblique muscle of auricle is placed on the cranial surface of the pinna. It consists of a few fibers extending from the upper and back part of the concha to the convexity immediately above it.

• Intrinsic muscles of external ear

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 1035 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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